The high price paid for the dog is a sign that the red Tibetan mastiff has become a status symbol in China, replacing jewellery and cars as a way for the super-rich to show off their wealth.

这次高价竞犬表明在中国红色藏獒已经取代珠宝名车，成为一种身份的象征，让富人得以炫耀自己的财富。

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Critics of the big four argue that auditors are well paid for the risks that they run, and that legal pressures are the only way to keep their feet to the fire, ensuring high-quality work.

批评四大的人认为这些审计员赚得已经足够多来补偿他们所面对的风险，法律的压力唯一能够使他们不过于潇洒保证高质量工作的方法。

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By the way, most of the studies reviewed here were paid for by the dairy industry - and they still failed to show their products met the manufacturer's multimillion dollar advertising claims.

顺便提一句，大部分这里评估的研究都是奶制品行业资助的—但是他们还是证明不了这些奶制品有生产商花数百万美元所广告的效果。

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The women had paid their own way to get to the training base in Sweetwater,Texas.

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They created shopping centres that paid their way but did nothing for local people outside shopping hours.

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Wichita State has one player (Carl Hall) who salvaged his career after working in a light bulb factory and two more (Ron Baker and Malcolm Armstead) who paid their way to come to school and started on the team as walk-ons.

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Now we have to pay the piper for treating our citizens in need properly, the ones who have always worked and paid their way and have been laid low by circumstances beyond their control and have further suffered because their fellow citizens now call them leeches and drains on society?

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